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#184200 - 04/08/09 09:59 AM Question on 5 letter english words
ums stranger Registered: 04/08/09 Posts: 2	I am after tring to create a list of words with 5 letters without the letters q or z in them...plus the second letter of the word needs to be an i - is there a way of me getting a list of all real words that can be created? Ums
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#184201 - 04/08/09 10:03 AM Re: Question on 5 letter english words [Re: ums]
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 6595 Loc: Vermont	welcome, ums! you might try onelook patterns something like ?1??? will get you everything with five letters with i as the second, but then you'll have to filter out the q's and z's.
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#184202 - 04/08/09 11:08 AM Re: Question on 5 letter english words [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
ums stranger Registered: 04/08/09 Posts: 2	Many thanks...been racking my brain on this one for months...and today I discovred this forum!
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#184203 - 04/08/09 11:47 AM Re: Question on 5 letter english words [Re: ums]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 9400 Loc: this too shall pass	I was curious, so I tried this search (common words only) and there are (only) 1533 five-letter words with second letter i in the OneLook index. (this is fortuitous since the upper limit for listing is 2000.)
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#184205 - 04/08/09 12:56 PM Re: Question on 5 letter english words [Re: tsuwm]
Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2031 Loc: British Columbia, Canada	1533! Even if 1/3 have a q or z I hope you aren't planning to make your students memorize the list.
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#184282 - 04/14/09 11:21 AM Re: Question on 5 letter english words [Re: ums]
The Pook old hand Registered: 02/20/08 Posts: 1067 Loc: Tasmania	Why? Are you playing Scrabble?
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